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* ''[[Miss Congeniality]]'' uses the second situation. "It is not a beauty pageant. It is a ''scholarship program!''"

** Also, before her transformation, Sandra Bullock's character Gracie answers a question with "Yeah." Candice Bergen's character Kathy Morningside (the director of the pageant) corrects her, saying "Yes." At the end of the movie, when Gracie is pushing Morningside in the car, the ex-pageant winner says "Yeah, yeah." Gracie corrects her, echoing "Yes" before shutting the door in the shocked woman's face.

* A similar phrase was used in the stage musical ''[[Annie]]''. When the FBI takes Miss Hannigan away, she pleads to have Annie witness to how good she treated her and the other orphans. Annie responds with the one thing Miss Hannigan always taught her: "Never tell a lie."

* Played with in the film adaptation of ''[[The Secret Garden]]''; when Mary's name is called at the station in London, the children start singing the nursery rhyme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary". Later on in the film, Dickon starts singing it and Mary remarks that the children used to sing it at her on the boat from India. She then happily sings the rest of the song with Dickon.

** Cersei's "I shall wear [the bruise] like a badge of honor" after Robert hits her, echoed to her later by Ned, when she slaps him.

** {{spoiler|Theon}} spends most of ''A Dance with Dragons'' in a state of [[Stockholm Syndrome]] denying his identity due to the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of his captor, Ramsay Bolton; in his internal monologue he frequently repeats the line "You have to know your ''name''" in order to remind himself that he's supposed to be "Reek", not {{spoiler|Theon. At the end of his last chapter in the book he repeats the line to emphasize that he once again recognises himself as Theon.}}

** In ''Philosopher's Stone'', there's Ron's "Are you a witch or not?!" to Hermione; wayyy later, in ''Deathly Hallows'', she says the exact same thing to him.

** [[Harry Potter/Awesome|'Weasley Is Our King']]. The Slytherins were just ''asking'' for the [[Insult Backfire]] on that one.

* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Death has a catchphrase "There is no justice, there's just me," which he originally means in a very cynical sense. At some point though, as he gains more humanity, he delivers the same line when punishing an evildoer.

** Later uses are reference to and/or subversion of its use in ''[[Mort]]''. "There is no justice, just us!" is used as an excuse for letting "good" people live and "bad" people die. It's later echoed as "There is no justice, just me," reasoning for why the world isn't fair, when [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time|what seemed like a good idea]] turns out to have horrible consequences.